Word: balm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Framed by lip balm on one end and lipliner on the other, girls' middle-school years are marked by revolutionary metamorphoses. A familiar story for our tragic heroes: In fifth grade, make-up piques their interest, for real. Mom's light green Clinique freebie lipstick peppered subtly on petulant mouths, a drama unfolds in the echoing stairwell. "Are you wearing lipstick...
...ongoing Clintonian sleaze watch, including the newly published allegation of a Clinton sexual assault in 1978 and the possibility that Judge Susan Webber Wright will hold him in contempt for his testimony in the Paula Jones case? For the White House staff, Hillary for Senate is a much needed balm. "Whether it's serious or not," says Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart...
...what a baseball player he is, and what a year it was, and what balm he brought to a nation that seemed to spend the year flaying its flesh. It may be true that Babe Ruth said, on being asked to justify his earning more money than Herbert Hoover, "I had a better year than he did." Surely if McGwire were asked the same question regarding the current occupant of Hoover's office, he could make the same reply. And we would respond, "Thank heavens...
...Harvard goals are a welcome balm for an offense that had been struggling, failing to score in regulation in its 1-0 double-overtime win at Columbia on Saturday, and failing to score at all against Hartford. The two goals, by senior forward Naomi Miller and junior forward Gina Foster, represent the team's largest offensive output since its season-opening win over New Hampshire...
...Saturday the Harvard field hockey team found its balm not in Gilead, but in Columbia...